Infrastructure, anyone?

by: Zappatero

Mon Sep 03, 2012 at 13:09:04 PM MST

Much of a finger-shaped parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still didn't have any power, five days after Isaac ravaged the state. Thousands of evacuees remained at shelters or bunked with friends or relatives.

Heckuva Job Brownie lives on......and how's the free market doing?

Entergy, which provides power to most of the people who lost it, was under fire over the weekend from local government officials for what they said was a slow pace of restoration.
Jefferson Parish President John Young said widespread outages were hampering businesses' recovery from the storm and he would ask the state Public Service Commission to investigate.

Entergy spokesman Chanel Lagarde noted that Isaac had lingered over the state after Tuesday's landfall and said Friday was the first day the corporation could get restoration efforts into high gear.

Nobody saw Isaac coming, eh? What did the Entergy CEO make for running this company so skillfully:

J Wayne Leonard

TOTAL COMPENSATION
$5.59 mil (#245)

5-YEAR COMPENSATION TOTAL
$36.10 mil

J Wayne Leonard has been CEO of Entergy (ETR) for 7 years.